Cloudmark Spamnet Review

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WheelieUK's Review of Cloudmark Spamnet

4th Dec 2005

Overall Rating

4 stars
  • Value for money
    2.5 stars
Good Points

Subscription Service allows you to join up your friends and earn a free month if they stay with Cloudmark. VERY accurate and simple to use (self-install plug-in). Don't loose the email which is marked as spam (moved to spam folder). No obvious slow down in downloading mail due to filtering. (Tested at DSL speeds).


Bad Points

Only available for use with Outlook and Outlook Express. Has possibility for limited abuse over a short period of time. Some users may be concerned about paying for a service where users are identifying the spam. You have to download the mail before the plug-in identifies it as spam, so spam causes wasted bandwidth. (Might be a problem if you have limited download limits, or LOTS of spam).


General Comments

I felt, given the age of some of these reviews, I would add a more up-to-date one. In doing so, I have to acknowledge many of the comments shown be earlier users. However, Cloudmark Desktop, as it is now called (The current version is 4.3 or 4.4 in beta) has moved on a long way. Sure, it is possible for spammers to (temporarily) mess up the system, but the trust system is such that these are identified very quickly. My mailbox is CONSISTANTLY between 98-99% clear of spam all the time. In 16,000 emails, I have only been able to add 263. That's a pretty good score in my book.

In addition to the Outlook bar, there is now an anti phising toolbar for IE. This is still in the early days of being developed, so has a few problems, but be assured, if you have a spam problem there is NOTHING better on the market (providing you use Outlook or Outlook Express that is). I have tried them all and this is the only one that gives me ALMOST 100% spam free email, and ALMOST no false positives. (About 50 or 60 in the same 16,000 messages referred to above. Most of those were newsletters which had been incorrectly blocked by users).

In short, if you don't have lots of newsletter type services, then you should enjoy an almost spam free email box. If you do, there may be the odd 1 or two marked wrongly, but I would rather have one or two than the amount I had before. I regularly got over 200 spam emails a day, and it used to take hours to review them before deleting. With Cloudmark, I rarely get a false positive.

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